La Russa, new tensions. And the cases of Facci and Roccella-Corriere.it broke out

Two new controversies once again shake the majority, grappling with the Justice case which catches fire on the rape complaint against the son of Ignatius LaRussaLeonardo Apache, the investigation of Daniela Santanche and the forced indictment for the undersecretary Andrea Delmastro.

Starting the fires, this time, I’m a right-wing columnist like Philip Faci and the minister Eugenia Rockella. The first, which until yesterday had to be entrusted with a program on Rai2 now at risk, come on Free writes a comment in which he essentially argues that both the son of the president of the Senate and the girl who denounced him could in their divergent version be convinced that they are “right”, and these cases of sexual violence are now difficult to judge, both because the The use of drugs makes every story “equivocal”, both because for an “ultralight and carefree” generation the concept of crime is “far from the burdensome concept”.

However, the article contains a brutal passage when Facci writes that two truths will confront each other and «it will turn out that a 22-year-old girl was undoubtedly addicted to cocaine before being addicted to Leonardo Apache La Russa (a family, a tribe)».

Words censored on social media and by the entire opposition, from the Pd to Calenda, from the Greens and the Left to 5 Star Movementwho ask that Facci not land on Rai. Sandro Rutolo of the Democratic Party first raised the case and appealed to the leaders of Viale Mazzini – who have “reflections in progress” on the program -, then the Equal Opportunities Commission of the FNSI, the Order of Journalists, Usigrai and Giulia Giornaliste, the association of professionals on gender equality, and also from the same company the voice of the councilor Francesca Bria (in Pd share) has been raised, who is asking precisely “that the Rai top management suspend the journalist’s strip”.

A storm that hit the editorialist in full, who says he “fell from the pear tree and absolutely bewildered” by the controversy, and who would not rewrite that passage of his article “which was in the style Free» not so much out of repentance, but because «it’s a professional defeat: if everyone has read only three words of a much more complex comment, and I am accused of those of 4 crimes — racism, sexism, apology of fascism and secondary victimization of womena — means that I no longer understand anything of what is happening. Mine is a failure. They extrapolated a sentence and made me cannon fodder. They wanted someone to hang and it was my turn.”

In a centre-right, no voices have been raised in defense of Facci for days, while another case is opening: the Minister for the Family Eugenia Rockellaspeaking in Polignano al Possible Book Festival, first defends La Russa for the words about his son: «He is a father. I remember that he was the one who proposed a demonstration of men only against violence against women, because this is not only a problem for women but also for men. This seems to me already an answer. Then venture a comparison between the case Santanché and that of Enzo Tortora: «I still remember the Tortora case, as well as all the politicians who resigned and then turned out to be absolutely innocent. Their trials have come to naught and no one has given these people their reputation back. Instead, for example, the magistrates who accused Tortora have made a career and no one has asked them to account for the mistakes they made. So I believe as a guarantee that there is no need to resign ». For her, the protests came immediately from the public – so many «Buuu!» – , then the controversy became politics. From the Pd with Zan (“Roccella should defend all the families of this country, not just those of party colleagues”) a Bonelli of Verdi and Sinistra a Costa di Azioneoppositions have arisen.

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